The county’s panorama of Black-owned restaurants isn’t solely ever increasing – it is ever diversifying. You will discover all the pieces from American soul meals to Trinidadian roti to iconic barbecue to traditional Haitian entrees to neighborhood pizza.
This is a useful information that includes this sweeping selection.
Huge John’s Eatery, West Palm Seaside
This brunch-all-day, soul food diner was sparked by Sasha LeJeune’s home-cooking. Sasha is married to John “Huge John” LeJeune, a life coach and enterprise marketing consultant who opened Huge John’s Eatery in September 2020. Early final yr, after Sasha ready an all-out Sunday brunch on the diner, prospects raved. They’d are available mid-week, asking for Sasha’s oxtail-and-grits brunch particular. The couple knew they’d a brand new idea on their fingers: brunch all day. They’ve created a menu that hints of Sasha’s Panamanian roots, John’s Haitian heritage and their shared love of American soul meals.
• 100 Sansburys Manner, Suite 100 (steps from Dick’s Sporting Items in The Shoppes at Southern Palms), West Palm Seaside, 561-333-2333, BigJohnsEatery.com
Palm Seaside Brisket and BBQ, West Palm Seaside
Pitmaster and caterer Cleveland Stubbs has brought his distinctive type of barbecue to the Village Commons plaza. He describes his method as a mixture of Texas, Memphis and Carolinas type with an excellent sprint of Caribbean flavors. The island spice is a nod to Stubbs’ Bahamian heritage. Along with smoked Prime beef brisket, his menu presents all the pieces from hickory smoked complete rotisserie rooster, Southern fried rooster in a field, waffles combos along with your alternative of meat, plus Southern and Caribbean sides (like collard greens, peas and rice and Caribbean-style mac and cheese) and desserts (like banana pudding and candy potato pie).
• 801 Village Commons, Unit 307, West Palm Seaside, 561-530-3092, PalmBeachBrisketandBBQ.com
Chunkay, Riviera Seaside
Welcome to Riviera Seaside’s spot for roti and doubles. This Trinidadian eatery and takeout shop is the creation of Chef Wendy Tilkaran and her spouse/enterprise companion Evita Thomas, who moved the eatery north from their authentic Lake Value Seaside location in Might 2021. The menu pays tribute to Trinidad’s street-food favorites and cultural range in bites like doubles (small stuffed and fried flatbreads), saltfish buljol (salted cod salad), roti (gentle grilled flatbreads crammed with curried meats and veggies), geera pork (cumin-seasoned bites) and Trini corn soup (Chef Wendy’s specialty). She presents quite a lot of vegan choices, fried dough sweets, fragrant sorrel juice, peanut milk punch, and house-bottled condiments.
• 8344 Backyard Ave., Riviera Seaside, 561-473-3710, Chunkay.app
Yolle Tropical Restaurant, Lake Value Seaside
Griot, lambi, diri ak pwa – oh, my. It’s a feast of Haitian culinary favorites at Yolle Tropical Restaurant, the place specialties embody fried pork (griot), conch stew (lambi), weekend bouyon (brothy beef stew) and Saturday fritay (fried meats and snacks). Homeowners Odney and Yolie Joseph opened the small, well set eatery in early 2021, impressed by the scrumptious meals Yolie would make for his or her household.
• 2107 N. Dixie Hwy, Lake Value Seaside, 561-619-3692, YolleTropicalRestaurant.com
The Vegan Eating places, Loxahatchee
The dangerous information is Rahein and Patricia Jones closed their beloved Delray Seaside restaurant, The New Vegan, in December after 9 years in enterprise. The excellent news is that they’ve moved their vegan meals operation to a sprawling farm in Loxahatchee, the place they’re rising produce for his or her dishes and internet hosting a sequence of occasions. After they first entered the vegan-food world, the Jones household have been the very poster youngsters for his or her idea – actually, they have been new vegans. Searching for a wholesome, new life-style after years of meaty indulgences, they adopted a vegan weight-reduction plan virtually in a single day. They created a menu that is each scrumptious and wholesome — the truth is, their vegan burgers have gained native competitions.
• 15550 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee, 561-404-5301, on Instagram @TheVeganRestaurants
McCray’s Yard Bar-B-Q, Mangonia Park
Barbecue pitmaster Derrick McCray’s meat-smoking abilities are properly regarded past Palm Seaside County. He is been catering NFL-sanctioned Super Bowl events since 2007. A longtime roadside pitmaster, McCray is the proprietor of McCray’s Yard Bar-B-Q in Mangonia Park, which and Riviera Seaside. The Mangonia Park location, which opened in the summertime of 2019, boasts drive-through and takeout home windows.
• 1521 forty fifth St., Mangonia Park; 561-370-3216, McCraysBBQ.com
Mr. Mack Island Grill, West Palm Seaside
This Jamaican restaurant idea grew out of a preferred jerk-chicken truck a few years in the past. Jerk continues to be the center of the menu, however proprietor, hospitality veteran Craig McKenzie, presents a variety of different choices and specials, together with steamed fish, curry conch, brown stew rooster and oxtail. (The free-standing constructing previously housed Bay Bay’s Rooster and Waffles.)
• 2400 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Seaside, 561-812-3741, on Fb @MrMackIslandGrill
Off Tha Bone BBQ, West Palm Seaside
This family-owned barbecue spot simply north of Palm Seaside Lakes Boulevard is a local favorite. Off Tha Bone chef/proprietor Daniel Spann presents a mixture of smoky barbecue, Southern and soul meals, all in heaping parts. His dishes, all served in beneficiant parts, sparked a cult following since Off Tha Bone’s early days as a roadside stand.
• 1516 N. Tamarind Ave., West Palm Seaside, 561-294-9717, FallOffThaBone.com
Alberte’s Haitian Restaurant, suburban Lake Value
Native photographer Jordan Marseille was about 15 years previous when his household opened Alberte’s Haitian Restaurant in 2006. He owns and operates the place now, however he proudly serves his mother Alberta’s genuine cooking. The restaurant is a well-liked takeout spot, serving a variety of Haitian consolation dishes like legumes (hearty vegetable stew), Haitian griot (marinated, fried pork) and spaghetti al’ Haitienne (spicy Haitian spaghetti).
• 4595 Hypoluxo Highway in suburban Lake Value; 561-649-6766, AlbertesRestaurant.com
Candy’s Sensational Delicacies, Delray Seaside
Serving Jamaican specialties like curry goat, brown stew rooster, ackee and saltfish and extra, this lunch and dinner spot retains it genuine simply off Delray’s important drag. Simply look on the handwritten menu on the wall for the every day specials. The small restaurant is proprietor Ivet “Candy” Henry’s homage to the meals and flavors of her homeland. Candy’s has been a preferred cease on the native Taste History Culinary Tour.
• 25 SW fifth Ave., Delray Seaside; 561-865-7086
Bamboo Hearth Café, Delray Seaside
This cozy, family-owned restaurant has been serving home-spun Guyanese and Caribbean dishes in Delray Seaside’s Pineapple Grove for greater than 15 years. There’s good out of doors seating alongside the entrance of the restaurant.
• 149 NE 4th Ave., Delray Seaside; 561-749-0973, on Fb @BambooFireDelray
Majestic Ash Lounge and Southern Spice, Northwood
Hospitality veteran Michael Johnson and enterprise companion Jerome Byrd, a retired firefighter who opened the county’s first Zaxby’s, introduced this Southern-inspired restaurant and open-air cigar lounge to Northwood Highway in September 2020. The spacious restaurant/bar has develop into a chill spot for dinner, Sunday brunch, completely satisfied hour and particular occasions like spoken-word nights. The menu ranges from small bites (wings, sliders) to heftier plates (shredded oxtail and “creamy cheese” grits, Southern fried rooster and red-velvet waffles, pecan-praline salmon and extra).
• 407 Northwood Rd., simply west of North Dixie Freeway, West Palm Seaside, 561-508-4705, MajesticLoungeandSouthernSpice.com
Flavors Island Restaurant, West Palm Seaside
Open since 2019, this Haitian restaurant serves an array of home-y soups and every day specials. Proprietor Jephtee Bien-Aime posts tempting meals pictures and cooking movies on the restaurant’s Instagram web page. That is how we all know she serves free pasta gratinée (Haitian mac and cheese) each Monday, fritay (fritters) platters on Fridays and Saturdays, and bouyon (Haitian beef soup) each Saturday. And the place bottles its personal kremas (Haitian spiked nog), too.
• 3897 N. Haverhill Rd., Suite 126, West Palm Seaside, 561-848-4211, on Instagram @flavors_island
Trindy Connoisseur, West Palm Seaside
Chef Trinnette Morris has grown her catering operation to incorporate a downtown West Palm breakfast eatery, a takeout spot in Nice Metropolis and a “grazing board” service known as Grazed. Morris additionally presents cooking courses and training for brand new restaurant or food-business house owners.
• Trindy Connoisseur’s breakfast restaurant is at 407 N. Rosemary Ave. In Nice Metropolis, Trindy’s takeout spot is at 2055 Spruce Ave. To put orders at both location, name or textual content 561-570-6325. TrindyGourmet.com
Blue Mountain Espresso Home, West Palm Seaside
This café serves Blue Mountain-grown coffee and different Jamaican delicacies on Clematis Avenue. The menu inspiration comes from proprietor Allison Boettcher’s Jamaican homeland. She hails from St. Andrew Parish, which features a stretch of the majestic mountain vary that grows among the world’s greatest espresso.
• 540 Clematis St., Unit 3 (dealing with Rosemary Avenue), West Palm Seaside; 561-318-7296, BlueMountainCoffeeHouses.com
Ganache Bakery, West Palm Seaside
Native baker Jamal Lake, who creates eye-catching truffles and different treats at his downtown West Palm bakery, gained nationwide consideration when he appeared on Meals Community’s “Halloween Baking Championship” in 2018.
Since then, he has doubled-down on his cake enterprise and cooking courses.
• 306 S. Dixie Hwy, West Palm Seaside; 561-507-5082, GanacheBakeryCafe.com
Fiwe Caribbean Delicacies, West Palm Seaside
In 2019, longtime restaurant proprietor Sharon Bedasee created a welcoming spot in downtown West Palm Seaside, the place her kitchen celebrates a variety of Caribbean flavors, all the pieces from Jamaican jerk and curries to West Indian roti to Puerto Rican mofongo. Fiwe’s menu lists loads of vegetarian choices. And on the weekends, a Caribbean brunch is served.
• 410 Evernia St., Unit 108, West Palm Seaside, 561-248-2065, FiWeJA.com
Sirgae’s Wooden Hearth Pizza, Northwood
Proprietor Sirgae Jewell introduced this soulful neighborhood pizzeria to Northwood Village in September 2020.
On the menu: a collection of hand-tossed pies, panini, subs, sliders, full entrees and different choices.
• 437 Northwood Rd., West Palm Seaside, 561-284-6915, SirgaesWoodFirePizza.com
Troy’s Bar-Be-Que, Boynton Seaside, West Palm Seaside
What started as pitmaster Troy Davis’ roadside barbecue stand in Boynton Seaside in 1998 grew right into a brick-and-mortar restaurant in that metropolis in 2017. Davis’ son Anthony Barber, who took over the enterprise when the pitmaster retired, lately expanded the model into West Palm Beach. This Troy’s eatery operates in a brightly hued, picket A-frame constructing on Georgia Avenue as a part of the new-ish artists’ advanced referred to as The Peach. This location presents the identical menu as the unique Troy’s in Boynton, which suggests it’s a terrific place for his or her signature smoked ribs.
• In Boynton Seaside at 1920 S. Federal Hwy (561-740-1125). In West Palm Seaside at 3950 Georgia Ave. (561-788-5561). BBQTroys.com
Ceasar’s Well-known Ribs, Delray Seaside
This new-ish restaurant started as a modest rib-stand in a church lot greater than a decade in the past. Invoice and Pauline Ceasar, the couple behind that authentic roadside stand, opened the brick-and-mortar version of Ceasar’s Well-known Ribs in August 2020. The specialty: smoked, jerk-seasoned spare ribs. Invoice, a neighborhood highschool trainer and soccer coach with a ardour for cooking, remembers their early barbecue days: “Two small grills, six slabs of ribs and a case of rooster. That’s what we began with.”
• 37 SW fifth Ave. in Delray Seaside; 561-303-1398, CeasarsFamousRibs.com
Le Bistro 2.0, Boca Raton
This small restaurant is Chef Greg Romulus‘ dream turned actuality, a spot the place he might end up all his favourite Haitian specialties. He opened the principally takeout restaurant in the summertime of 2018. Need a peek? Romulus options his every day specials on Le Bistro’s Instagram web page.
• 9846 Sandalfoot Blvd., Boca Raton; 561-465-5767, on Instagram @Le_Bistro2.0_llc
